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For 2,484 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 50% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 48% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.8 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 66
Highest review score: 100 Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere
Lowest review score: 0 Cats
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,188 out of 2484
  2. Mixed: 1,122 out of 2484
  3. Negative: 174 out of 2484
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  1. Avatar: Fire and Ash
    Some of us saw a while ago that turning Avatar into a franchise would prove to be a creative cul-de-sac. Having reached the top of the street three years ago, Cameron spends all of Fire and Ash trying to turn his enormous articulated lorry around. The back-up beeper is beeping, the spinning yellow lights are spinning, and he’s just knocked over his third wheelie bin. I do hope he eventually gets out.
  2. Fackham Hall
    Usually, a spoof franchise would only feel this exhausted by the second or third sequel, so I suppose Fackham Hall deserves points for efficiency at least.
  3. Ella McCay
    Many good actors here are weirdly bad.
  4. Wicked: For Good
    A second instalment of the Oz origin movie is bloated and boring despite new songs for both Elphaba and Glinda.
  5. Now You See Me: Now You Don't
    Pike’s preposterous accent is as close as the film ever comes to acknowledging its own premise’s inherent corniness.
  6. Christmas Karma
    It is like watching British cinema undergo a deathbed hallucination.
  7. Animal Farm
    The bizarre achievement of this new film is to make us feel trapped and punished through every phase of the story.
  8. The Twits
    If you don’t actually want to make a film out of a Roald Dahl book, this critic’s advice is: don’t.
  9. TRON: Ares
    A shambolic film populated by some of the most aggressively charmless characters ever seen in a blockbuster.
  10. War of the Worlds
    It is silly, shoddy and features far too much of rapper-turned-leading man Ice Cube staring at a computer screen while looking as if he’s working through a reasonably urgent digestive ailment. Like a heat-ray in reverse, it leeches all the fun out of what should be an epic tale of alien invasion.
  11. Smurfs
    It has all the charm and personality of a dented traffic cone and features perhaps the single most tin-eared screenplay – in which Papa Smurf is kidnapped by the villainous wizard Gargamel, and Smurfette leads a globe-trotting mission to free him – that I have ever encountered in my two decades as a critic.
  12. Ballerina
    Ana de Armas stars as a new, lethally dull trainee assassin, Keanu Reeves makes an emergency cameo, and the film is an absolute stinker.
  13. Honey Don't!
    In place of classic thriller techniques and mechanisms are a beige aesthetic, limp dialogue and glib let’s-just-vibe-with-it attitude that only grow more maddening as things progress.
  14. Leave One Day
    Cannes has had its share of opening-night turkeys over the past decade or so (2014’s Grace of Monaco was a memorable one), but for sheer unabating feebleness this must take the biscuit.
  15. Bono: Stories of Surrender
    Bono may be his own worst enemy in the one-man show Stories of Surrender, but only just. His second worst is Blonde director Andrew Dominik, who has turned it into a more excruciating film than you might even have surmised.
  16. Ne Zha 2
    As filmmaking, it’s as mindless as Hollywood’s worst.
  17. Here
    Zemeckis can’t let go of his ghastly conviction that everything has to be heart-tugging schmaltz. Alan Silvestri’s ruinously sickly score is his main accomplice.
  18. Kraven the Hunter
    Last orders can’t come soon enough for the whole parade of supervillains, superheroes, or however they’re now choosing to identify. This is rock bottom.
  19. Mary
    This may be the single worst film I’ve seen all year; it’s certainly the most confused.
  20. We Live in Time
    The amatory mechanisms here are so basic they make 1970’s Love Story look like Wuthering Heights, but at least Love Story had the courage to wring every last drop of pathos from its tragic-romance premise.
  21. Venom: The Last Dance
    As last dances go, it’s the Macarena in film form.
  22. Lonely Planet
    Halloween is fast approaching and Netflix has very generously stitched together a chilling Frankenstein’s monster of a rom-com sure to keep audiences awake all night in a cold sweat.
  23. Baby Invasion
    Baby Invasion, which premiered at Venice tonight, may be the stupidest film I have ever seen. And I use the word “may” only because I’m not entirely sure this thing actually is a film in the first place.
  24. The Deliverance
    The film succumbs to being undiluted tripe.
  25. Duchess
    Almost everything these two say to one other is so wince-worthy you want to crawl under your seat, scuttle along the whole row if possible, and make for the nearest fire exit.
  26. The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
    The film has zero finesse even by Ritchie’s standards, but if star ratings were calculated on body count alone, give it hundreds.
  27. Deadpool & Wolverine
    The film is so myopically gripped by the idea of Marvel as endlessly fascinating corporate soap opera that in five years time, you wonder if it will make any sense at all.
  28. A Family Affair
    Though A Family Affair shoots for laughs, it ends up in an uncanny valley of spooky sex and dead-on-arrival jokes.
  29. Oh, Canada
    Schrader is a million miles from the potent anguish of First Reformed, the 2017 film that won him an Oscar; rather, this nearly rivals his 2013 erotic thriller The Canyons, starring Lindsay Lohan, for bewildering tedium.
  30. Strictly Confidential
    This is like picking holes in a mesh crop-top. The script’s so creaky it often sounds AI-generated.
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